remove_punctuation¶

pyhelpers.text.remove_punctuation(input_text, rm_whitespace=True, preserve_hyphenated=True)[source]¶

Removes punctuation from textual data.

Parameters:

input_text (str) – The input text from which punctuation will be removed.
rm_whitespace (bool) – Whether to remove whitespace characters as well; defaults to True.
preserve_hyphenated (bool) – Whether to preserve hyphenated words; defaults to True.

Returns:

The input text without punctuation (and optionally without whitespace).

Return type:

str

Examples:

>>> from pyhelpers.text import remove_punctuation
>>> remove_punctuation('Hello, world!')
'Hello world'
>>> remove_punctuation('   How   are you? ', rm_whitespace=False)
'How   are you'
>>> remove_punctuation('No-punctuation!', preserve_hyphenated=False)
'No punctuation'
>>> raw_text = 'Hello world!    This is a test. :-)'
>>> remove_punctuation(raw_text)
'Hello world This is a test'
>>> remove_punctuation(raw_text, rm_whitespace=False)
'Hello world    This is a test'